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AHN YOUNG-JOON | Associated Press
▲ Protesters from Myanmar's National League for Democracy holding a picture of Myanmar opposi
tion leader Aung San Suu Kyi stage a candlelight rally against Myanmar’s military junta in downtown
Seoul, South Korea on Saturday.
Hope wanes among Myanmar citizens
YANGON, Myanmar
Thousands of soldiers and
police were deployed in
Myanmar’s largest cities
Sunday, keeping even the
most die-hard protesters
off the streets, and more
arrests were reported, fur
ther demoralizing dissi
dents desperate for democ
racy.
The top United Nations
envoy on Myanmar,
Ibrahim Gambari, was try
ing to persuade Myanmar’s
military rulers to end a
deadly crackdown on dem
onstrators that has
sparked international out
cry.
But many protesters
said they were seeing a
repeat of the global reac
tion to a 1988 pro-democ
racy uprising, when the
world stood by as protest
The Wire
ers were gunned down in
the streets.
“I don’t think it will
make much of a differ
ence,” said one hotel work
er, who like other residents
asked not to be named,
fearing retaliation. “We
have to find a solution our
selves.”
A senior Japanese offi
cial headed for Myanmar
on Sunday to press the
military government to
move toward democracy
and to protest the killing
of Japanese journalist
Kenji Nagai during the
crackdown on protesters.
Deputy Foreign
Minister Mitoji Yabunaka
was to arrive in Yangon
by Sunday evening,
according to a ministry
official who spoke on con
dition of anonymity in
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NEWS
TOP STORIES FROM AROUND
THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD
line with policy.
Soldiers and police have
been posted on almost all
corners in the cities of
Yangon and Mandalay.
Shopping malls, grocery
stores and public parks
were closed and few people
dared to venture out of
their homes.
A young woman who
took part in a massive
demonstration in Yangon
Thursday said she didn’t
think “we have any more
hope to win.” She was sep
arated from her boyfriend
when police broke up the
protest by firing into
crowds and has not seen
him since.
“The monks are the
ones who give us courage,”
she said. Most of the cler
ics, whose participation
helped the protests grow
Packers quarterback Favre claims
record with 421 touchdown passes
MINNEAPOLIS Brett
Favre is No. 1 —with a
bullet.
Favre broke Dan
Marino’s record for career
touchdown passes
Sunday, zipping No. 421 to
Greg Jennings in the first
quarter of the game
against the Minnesota
Vikings.
He hit Jennings on a
16- slant for the score
with 4:56 left in the quar
ter, and like most of his
touchdown throws
through his brilliant
17- career, this one
had plenty of steam on it.
Favre sprinted to the
end zone and hoisted
Jennings on his left shoul
der. He joined in hugs with
his teammates on the
sideline, as thousands of
Packers faithful who made
the trip from Wisconsin
cheered loudly.
Even those dressed in
purple stood and applaud
ed when the announce
ment was made, and a
taped message from
Marino played on the big
screen.
“I loved holding the
touchdown record for the
past 13 years,” Marino
said. “But if someone was
Fbrmer chess champion Kasparov chosen
as Other Russia coalition pres, candidate
MOSCOW The former
world chess champion
Garry Kasparov entered
Russia’s presidential race
Sunday, elected over
whelmingly as the candi
date for the country’s
beleaguered opposition
coalition.
Kasparov has been a
driving force behind the
coalition, which has united
liberals, leftists and nation
alists in opposition to
President Vladimir Putin.
He received 379 of 498
votes at a national con
gress held in Moscow by
the Other Russia coalition,
coalition spokeswoman
Lyudmila Mamina told
The Associated Press.
Kasparov’s place on the
dramatically, now are
besieged in their monas
teries behind locked gates
and barbed wire.
The number of troops
in Yangon, the largest
city, swelled to around
20,000 after reinforce
ments arrived overnight
Sunday, ensuring that
almost all demonstrators
would remain off the
streets, an Asian diplo
mat said.
“The security forces are
demonstrating their
strength,” said the diplo
mat, who spoke on condi
tion of anonymity, citing
protocol. “I think the
chance of protesters com
ing to the road and mobi
lizing enough people to
topple the junta is zero.”
Associated Press
JIM MONE | Associated Press
▲ Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre
carries Greg Jennings after completing a touch
down pass, setting the NFL record for career
touchdown passes Sunday against Minnesota. •
NAMES & FACES
going to break it, I’m glad
it was someone like you,
who has always competed
at the highest level and
always played to win.”
It’s the latest record
WORLD
March ballot was not
assured. His candidacy
still needs to be registered
and is likely to be blocked.
Even if he were allowed
to run, Kasparov would
not be expected to pose a
major challenge to which
ever candidate wins Putin’s
backing.
Sniper sentenced,
Iraqi deaths climb
BAGHDAD The court
martial that cleared a U.S.
Army sniper of two counts
NATION
Student
loan rates
climbing
The near doubling in
the cost of a college
degree the past decade
has produced an explo
sion in high-priced stu
dent loans that could
haunt the U.S. economy
for years.
While scholarships
grant money and govern
ment-backed student
loans whose interest
rates are capped have
taken up some of the
slack, many families and
individual students have
turned to private loans,
which carry fees and
interest rates that are
often variable and up to
20 percent.
Many in the next gen
eration of workers will
be so debt-burdened
they will have to delay
home purchases, limit
vacations, even eat out
less to pay loans off on
time.
Kristin Cole, 30, who
graduated from Michigan
State University’s law
school and lives in Grand
Rapids, Mich., owes
$150,000 in private and
government-backed stu
dent loans. Her monthly
payment of $660, which
consumes a quarter of
her take-home pay, is
scheduled to jump to
SBOO in a year or so, con
fronting her with stark
financial choices.
“I could never buy a
house. I can’t travel; I
can’t do anything,” she
said. “I feel like a prison
er.”
A legal aid worker,
Cole said she may need
to get a job at a law firm,
“doing something that
I’m not real dedicated
to, just for the sake of
being able to live.”
Associated Press
claimed by the league’s
last true gunslinger. Two
weeks ago, Favre broke
John Elway’s mark for
career victories by a quar
terback when he led the
Packers to a 35-13 win
over the New York Giants.
Associated Press
of murder sentenced him
Saturday to five months
in prison, reduced his
rank to private and
ordered his pay withheld
for planting evidence in
the deaths of two Iraqi
civilians.
Sectarian violence
claimed at least 40 more
lives across Iraq, with a
flurry of attacks around
the northern city of Mosul
where bombs, gunmen and
mortar fire killed 14.
Two U.S. soldiers were
killed by gunfire, one in
Diyala province north of
Baghdad and one in a
southern district of the
capital.
Associated Press
